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RBA rate cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2008
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) meets today to assess the country's monetary policy settings. Financial markets remain convinced that the RBA will hold rates at a 12-year high of 7.25 percent after its meeting today. However, recent data showing ...

Central bank watch

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2008
This Week's Market Movers (28 Jul - 1 Aug 2008) Monetary policy comes to the fore this week with the central banks of Australia, the United States, the Eurozone and the UK all meeting to deliberate on appropriate interest rate settings given the growth-inflation ...

Inflation Report: Japan's Turn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2008
... state of the US housing market. In Europe, the Bank of England (BoE) released the minutes of its July 9 and 10 Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting and reported that seven members of the MPC voted to keep official interest rates unchanged at 5.0 percent ...

All Eyes on the CPI

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2008
... steady to lower interest rates, particularly following the RBA Governor's comments last week, indicating that monetary policy could be eased even before inflation has come down. A higher-than-expected CPI reading will bring back interest rate hike speculation. ...

This Week's Market Movers (21-25 July 2008)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2008
... and the more expensive currency, among others. In the UK, the Bank of England will release the minutes from its monetary policy meeting held on July 10 this week, along with UK June retail sales and advance second quarter GDP. The BOE kept rates unchanged ...

Inflation outlook dim

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2008
... his speech, Stevens signaled that further interest rate rises might be taken off the RBA's agenda as its recent monetary policy tightening, which took the cash rate to a 12-year high of 7.25 percent, appears to be sufficient in bringing down inflation. ...

Fed Gloom

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2008
... months. The index rose in July but to a still negative 4.92 from negative 8.68 in the previous month. Bottomline: Monetary policy tightening is definitely off the agenda for now. On the contrary, while the Fed does not want to lower rates from 2 percent ...

Market Jitters Redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2008
... the US housing market show that this might take just a little bit longer. US Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke's monetary policy testimony tomorrow night will give investors further clues on the Fed's thinking over this renewed market stress.

This Week's Market Movers (14-18 July 2008)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2008
... figures are undoubtedly high and rising in the major economies, the RBA is in a much better position to adjust monetary policy settings compared with the central banks of the US, the Eurozone, Japan and the UK. This is because domestic economic growth ...

Trouble at Threadneedle Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2008
... overnight. After signaling in recent weeks that it is more likely to follow the European Central Bank (ECB) and tighten monetary policy rather than ease, the Bank of England (BoE) succumbed to the growing threat of an economic recession and kept its ...